Archibald White Maconochie

Archibald White Maconochie (1855 – 3 February 1926)[1] was an English Liberal Unionist politician and businessman who served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for East Aberdeenshire from 1900 to 1906.Upon his election, Maconochie Bros was incorporated as a limited company, due to laws regarding MP's receiving government contracts.[9] In his final years, Maconochie suffered from an enlarged prostate gland and he died at a nursing home in Wesminster in February 1926 of a heart attack following surgery for the ailment, aged 70.[10][11] In the years following his death, Maconochie Bros suffered several setbacks including the closures of several factories between the 1920s and 1950s, and export restrictions on New Zealand and Australia caused the company to collapse in 1953.The final of Maconochie's original factories closed in 2005, and the recipe for Pan Yan pickle was destroyed by fire around the same time.
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